Improved weather-strip



"'iluited Qisttt me een `Letters Patent No. 97,412, dated November 30,1869.

IMPROVED WEATHER-STRIP.

To all whom 'it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnprl JOHNSTON, of Chicago, in the county ofCook, and in the Siate of Illinois,

. haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Weather-Strips;and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and `exactdescription thereof,`

referencefheing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreference I narked thereon, making a part 'of this Vspecification Thenature of my invention consistsiu the constructiouor lpeculiar formationof \\'eatl1er-strips, made .of rubber cloth, or other equivalentmaterial. In order to enable others skilled in the art to which myinvention appertains, to make and use the same,-

I will mow proceed to describe its-construction and operation, referringto the annexed drawings, ,in which- Figure l is a horizontal section,and r Figure 2, a. vertical section of a door-frame and door with myweather-strip at-tached.

Figure 3 is a perspective ot'a piece of the door-eas-A ing, showing themanner of attaching my weatherstrip.

Figure 4 shows a, piece of the weather-strip before it is attached.

A represents the door-flame, and

B, the door, to the lower outer edge of which the weather-strip G isattached.

'.llheweathelstrip O is made of a strip of lrubber cloth, or othersuitable material, folded and sewed toy gether, forming, as shown infig. 4, a loop, a, and two edges, b b.

Ihe strip is applied to the edge of the door, by opening the under half,so as to throw the other half perpendicular to it. The under side thenforms a iange on i each side, which is tacked or cemented to the wood.

In like manner, the strip may be applied to the 'outer 'edge of thedoor-step, which throws it dat gainst thedoor when the door closesagainst it.

This strip may be applied-around the entire door, either attached to thedoor or the door-frame, and also to windows.

In the bottom of the doorB is a groove, of suitable dimensions, runningnearer the front than the back, the object of which is to prevent thewater from the front, that runs down the door, to be conducted to theback of the door, where it would belikely to vgetiuto the room.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' A weather-strip, made of rubber cloth, or other suit-able material,folded and sewed together, and applied substa'ntially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand,this 24th dayof September,.1869.

JOSEPH J OHNSTON Witnesses:

W. M. BENTON, DANIEL; Summen.

